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Bessel van der Kolk

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“I think that's the big challenge, actually. We have a foundation now, and the main thing that we're interested in is in finding funding for projects like that of how do you help people to connect to each other, be in sync with each other. We're very much into people making music together, making theater together, creating projects together. That is who we are. glory as human beings is this collaborative active physical creation of things that has not been part of mental health we talk and we give pills”
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“I was thinking Help you. I bet you've still made easy contact with your friends who you played football with 20 years ago. No, 30 years ago.”
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“Well, but I have friends who went to Eton. The definition for me of many Englishmen is you mother hates you and sent you off to boarding school when you're six years old and never looks after you anymore. But help my friends who went to these public schools in England was sports. Enormously powerful. People felt really close to each other, moving together, throwing balls together, fighting in the field. That traditionally has been the way that guys get close together. That may ring a bell with you somewhere”
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“Yet needed each other. You need each other and you count on each other and you have each other's back and you're saying to me, I have your back us making commitment to each other is a very profound human experience. You don't get that from a screen.”
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“How do we natural instinct when you are in danger, you and I become much better friends than we are if something bad happened to us right now, it started clinging to each other. Is that because we”
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“I think so. Although, no, that's not entirely true. I learned a lot about love for my combat veterans. To some degree, I think most human beings don't know what love is until you know what it's like to be in combat together with other people creates an enormously deep bond between people. So I know something about male love more from working with combat wrestlers than anything else. When you're in great danger, guys are there for each other. They really protect each other. They really look after each other.”
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“Everything critical. And there's another thing that is troublesome about the development of our field, namely in our generation, Thomas, who started with experiences like mine, working with combat veterans. I'm not a combat veteran. I was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War. I don't think about the U.S. Marine Corps. And so I couldn't have told people what it's like, but I mean groups. They talk to each other and they learned about what it's like to be a combat veteran from each other. And the moment they made this connection with each other, they would become a band of brothers. And that's how people survive trauma by bonding with other”
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“Lonelier and lonelier and more introduced. Huge, huge issue screens as virtual realities is our biggest challenge, I think. because screens give you a virtual reality of pleasure, etc. But it's not real and it is not a part of your efforts of doing something. You get a cheap reward. But ordinarily takes a lot of activity. And so you get your little dop me rush and it feels like you had experience, but you don't learn how to get along with other people. You don't learn that visceral reaction of pleasure of we are friends.”
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“I think that makes perfect sense to me because we are primates. It's something that came up in your interview with Trevor. The deep degree to which we're interconnected creatures, that we really don't exist as individuals. So we are meant to live troops. We're meant to be with other people. And so what is safe with other people becomes a critical issue of our survival. The reason that humans have survived is not because of your individual gifts to mine. It's because we can band together and build buildings and airplanes and all sorts of stuff. It's all communal things. It's not central in our science anywhere today, but it's at the core, if you understand human beings, we are a collective bunch of creatures who collectively create something. And so knowing how to do that and how to adjust to each other is... The core of who we are.”
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“So if I feel uncomfortable in your presence, is that because you're triggering something in me about my past, or am I picking something up about you And that is the complexity of our interactions.”
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“I think they're describing two things. We pick up each other's energy. There's such a thing as the mirror. Which hasn't received much attention in the past few years, but I think it's a very important invention. I pick up your energy. And if, let's say, you're depressed but you have a job to do, to talk with me today, it's very likely that on some level will pick up your depression and it will affect our conversation. I'm not saying that I do. That's a hypothetical thing. But we pick up each other's energy. And so you may be somebody who is very angry, but who's trying to behave themselves and behave very well. But you may pick up that anger. And that's really the very complicated subsychotherapy. And by picking up your energy or am I picking up my energy?”
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“She was like belike for you to actually learn to use your body to fight somebody. And that's, for example, treatment that I have never studied, but I was amazed how many of my close colleagues who were very much into trauma tell me at some point, oh, and now I have to go to my martial arts class. And nobody sees that as a legitimate way of dealing with what they're dealing with, but I think people are doing their martial arts because they have memories of being victimized. And until it gives me a visual experience of my body can defend itself, my body, I can use my body to take care of myself. And that's not the intellectual process, it's the visceral experience.”
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“Because she gets stuck in habits. In a way, trauma becomes a habit. My habit is that when I see a strong guy in the room, I get scared, hypothetical situation. And so you have habitual responses. And part of what I can do therapy for is to get to realize your habitual responses and become curious about it. Whenever a person like that comes in the room, I freeze and I sound like an idiot. And your therapist says, so what happens in your body? And how long have you felt this way? You feel this way when you were six or three or eight, and then at some point people get a narrative that may begin to explain it. And that narrative may say, oh, I was bullied by somebody. And that feeling comes back when I meet somebody who reminds me of my bully. And then you go like, have you ever tried martial arts?”
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“Absol I told you I was a sickly child. I was really sickly until I had asthma when I was 13. And I think the most helpful thing I ever did was rolling. Rolfing is a very intense form of massage where they sort of tear your muscles from your fascia. And I came to live in a new body. I no longer live frozen in that body of this little child who almost died. As much as anything I've ever done.”
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“And so we got his positions may be triggering, you may hold your body in a frozen position in order not to trigger those feelings of sexual abuse.”
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“certainly the yoga post that all sexually abuse victims have great trouble with is the happy baby pose happy baby pose when you put your feet in the air you lie on your back you hold your toes and you spread your your legs wide so your pelvis is up against the air for most of us that's a very pleasant pok makes you relax if you're a sexual abuse survivor that's going to trigger a lot of stuff You have to be very careful doing this.”
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“Yoga makes it possible for you to reconnect your senses in a way, to feel what you feel, and to make it safer what you feel. So as we go to yoga studio with a teacher with a nice voice who really helps you to not take a deep breath, stretch out your arms, feel a warrior three pose, and then you start feeling it. And for many people doing yoga can be actually quite agitating, scary actually in a way, for traumatized people. We see it all the time, is that something gets triggered and you start getting upset just doing a simple down dog, let's say.”
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“Responses being disconnection or hypersensitivity, there's always these two contradictory things that coexist, remembering too much and remembering too little, feeling too much and feeling too little. There is no happy medium. You go from one extreme to another. You're agitated and numbed at the same time. And I bet you know what it's like, because we all have been there, that we feel agitated, and at the same time we feel completely nothing at all. And there's almost no mind there. And I think it's a very uncommon human experience.”
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“This is a tiny study. But you see here is that after doing yoga, your insula gets more activated. Your insula is the place in your brain that makes you know what your body feels, like when it rains and you have no raincoat on and you go, I better get an umbrella so that you need to know what your body experiences and needs and anticipated. And that dimension of self-experience tends to get very damaged by trauma. The reason for that is it's an adaptive thing because trauma is so relived in physical experiences, as Darwin said, heartbreaking, gutven is the visual sensations. And so if you're constantly heartbroken, gutvenged, you charge it. And so you lose contact with your body as a defensive maneuver of feeling overwhelmed by these physical sensations.”
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“No, you don't treat trauma to treat your relationship to your body. Not the same thing, but trauma and what our research also shows is that when you start doing yoga, certain brain areas that tend to get dampened by trauma come to life.”
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“So it's perfectly legitimate to me. But when we do something new, like I was the first person who studied yoga for PTSD and people go like putting your butt in the air and twisting your spine and pussy for trauma. And I said, well, let's find out. And so we did the study. And it turned out that yoga was very effective for treatment of PTSD. But the overwhelming reaction of my academic colleagues was, oh, there he goes again. He's gone off to depend. And now, sort of people accept it as it.”
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“It makes perfect sense for one thing it's been used since time immemorial in certain cultures. People always discover it. In India, people know it. Northern Europe, nobody knows about bathwork. These are culturally dependent things. I think the closest may know it. I don't know. Go out there and see people there. And so people are so conformist to be approved of by their teachers and their peers Then people do something innovative, they tend to very quickly be, or they're cookie, they're crazy. I really got into body work. I've not done breathwork myself, but I hear about it from people.”
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“Because I'm suspicious of language, because language is always an interactive process. And if I would ask you to tell me what happened, you will filter yourself because certain things may be embarrassing or you don't want me to know about it. And so we circumvent this whole verbal process of your making meaning out of it and we organize some core ways in which your brain is perceiving this. So you saw a little bit of this in minor way. For me, when I first saw this, I was blown away by it and thought I need to study this. So when they quoted studies, the main study was done by me, NIH founded that. But I was also the last time that somebody could fund it for NIH for EMDR. Yeah.”
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“First, people to EMDR me, something really very, very nasty has happened to me, and I started off being very upset. And then during the EMDR, I don't know if that happened to you, I had images of sitting in my dining room table as a kid. And I had images of playing in a playground in primary school. Something already, don't come to my mind. And then we stopped it and indeed that really sucked. Time to go on. An important part is you did not tell me what you were going through.”
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“See, that is what's so great about his work. We don't know the linearity. And we don't over to hell. The emotional imprint is gone now, but it is. And, you know, of course, if we bring up something much worse than what you're going to, it takes much longer and a lot of other stuff comes up. But somehow EMDR seems to do, it creates new associative processes in the brain.”
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“So stay there. Now follow my finger with your eyes and look at me right now. Deep breath. So it comes to your mind right now as we're doing”
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“So can you bring to mind really about an unpleasant experience you've had not too long ago? And can you bring to mind what you saw at that point? You remember what the voices sounded like at that point? Any sounds come to mind. Do you remember what your body felt like back then? Can you remember what you were thinking or bring to mind what you were thinking? So how vivid is you're feeling right now of recollecting it?”
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“Yeah, because your early childhood experiences create who you are. If you go to Fancy college when you're 18, you do become identified with that college, but it doesn't dramatically change you into a new person. It becomes part of your identity. But if you grow up in a certain family early on in your life, you actually become that. The imprint is very deep early on.”
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“Oh, in terms of in our research 78% of the people who had adult encetra being assaulted or raped by a stranger, 78% of them were completely cured. But as not the majority of people who receive it, because most people we see have early childhood trauma, which is much more complicated.”
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“Well, and then of course we had to do a little research, which took us 15 years to get enough funding to do it to see what happens when you move your eyes back and forth. And then we discovered that if you move your eyes back and forth, as you recall a traumatic experience, you activate certain pathways between the temporopractal junction, which gives you a sense of self and your insulates your sense of your body. So your brain is able to say Oh yeah, this is what happened to me, but it happened to me in the past. So these are pathways that makes it possible for your brain to make that distinction.”
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“A subsample of people we studied indeed after a few sessions of EMDR COLAC, yeah, that really sucked, but it's over. It belongs to the past. It's not happening right now.”
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“Wiggle your fingers in front of people's eyes. I mean, for me, EMDR was really the gateway drug. I've written three books about PGS. He actually wrote the very first book in which the word PTSD exists in 84 or something. But they didn't know how to treat it. So I'm a world-renowned expert, but I have no idea how to treat it because people keep reliving their trauma and they don't know how to stop that. somebody starts telling me about EMDR and I don't believe a word of it and they say just you move your fingers in front of people's eyes I mean you move your eye from side to side as you relive the trauma and I go that's crazy everybody who hears it that's crazy and then people start doing it and they show me hard works I go like wow and people indeed”
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“A good example is the videotape I showed people yesterday of a woman, again, terrible carcasses, freezing, upset, freaked out, and then three sessions later we talk about it. He says, yeah, this shitty thing happened to me. I was in this car accident and I was jolted for it and my head was filled and boy, that was terrible back then. But now I have a granddaughter and I drive my car to my granddaughter and I'm fine.”
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“So people are confused about it. They say, oh, we relived the past. Now you're not aware that you relive the past because the past is the present. So, you don't think, oh, this reminds me about the time that my dad used to beat me when I was four years old. No, it feels like you are beating me right now”
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“You don't know that the feelings actually belong to the time that you're dead used to beat you. It is no, I feel the same way because I disagree with you.”
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“Yeah, lights of being became very active. But got inactivated by that timekeeper was brain. So he could not lie there and say, oh, I'm remembering what happened to me yesterday. He's reliving what happened yesterday.”
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“That's when you get anxiety, right? When you start thinking It is about having the perspective of this is happening right now, right now I'm really scared, but the moment I go home, the moment I call my friend, I'll feel better. You need to have that capacity for perspective and that perspective goes offline when you're in your trauma and you become a traumatized person.”
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“So that will be full of cortex. That's part of the system in the brain give you a sense of time. And as long as you have a sense, it's like little babies always have a sense of time either. Whatever happens totally, you see a child slowly grow and they get a sense of perspective. It's happening right now, but tomorrow it will be different.”
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“As he is disguised reliving his trauma, these two parts of his brain go offline. This is the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. That's the part of the brain that's the timekeeper of your brain. So if something unpleasant happens between us, let's say I go, oh, it's not a half hour and I'll be okay. So let me just put off with this. But when you get traumatized, the timekeeper disappears. And this is all there is. You lose your sense of perspective. And that is what happens in your trauma. You don't know the difference between the past and the present because the timekeeper of your brain goes offline and whatever you're feeling is real. Supposed to be feeling like a memory.”
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“But basically what you see here is this is a guy who is reliving a terrible car accident. He was involved. What you see here is that the right posterior part of the brain is temporoparietal junction. On the right side of the brain fires, and that's the feeding part of your brain. So you go, oh my God, oh my God, I'm terrified. But there's no cognition. And basically the left side of the brain shuts down. So when you're in your trauma, you're not a reasonable person. You actually become a little bit of a blubbering idiot. All of us, when we really are angry, upset, and not very articulate, but we have a lot of feelings. And then the pizza by I showed us is that”
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“So then the next level is to trigger is in part mediated by the amygdala. Is your amygdala if you smoke detector? That tends to become hypersensitive so that minor things get blown up and a minor thing that you may say to me, I take it as the most insulting thing in the world. And so you're constantly triggered by things and that makes you feel like you are doing terrible things to me. And it's not like I'm hypersensitive. And when you have an off day, that is your issue and not my issue. No, when you have an off day, I feel your off-day and we start getting into trouble together”
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“Exactly already to hire mental function It's more elementary. It's like you dog shaking. I mean, daughter has adopted a doctor at the time, and two years later the dog still walks in my house.”
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“Other parts of your brain, for example, your insula, which makes the connection between physical sensations and your body awareness, that for many people get shut down because the experience of trauma is a visceral experience of heartbreak and gutvenge. And if you have a lot of that, you can learn to shut that part of your brain down so you don't feel your body so much anymore or you don't feel your body so much, you don't feel very alive either because you don't feel so scared all the time. But it's likely that you will want to take some drugs to make yourself feel alive sometimes, stuff like that.”
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“The facts of brain that you tend to, there's one part of your brain that I call the Cockroach Center of Urbain, the periac that lights up underneath the amygdala where it knows the bert amyla these days. The part of your brain that tells you that you're in danger. When you traumatize, you're likely that that little part of your brain way back in your brainstem is firing all the time. All the time you go like, I'm in danger, I'm in danger, I'm in danger. And that's where it starts in a very elementary sensory level. You don't know what the danger is, but you just feel that you should be scared. And then there's certain...”
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“Not necessarily I can see how your brain may be different from other people's brains. I may take a particular population, you can average it out and you can say, oh, there's a little more activation of the bariacid or to gray, a little bit less of the bite insulin. So you see certain patterns of connectivity in the brain. To some degree, I think we learn a lot about the brain, but we don't know much about the brain. And I think people tend to overstate how much the brain pictures can teach us. I'd love the Hubel's telescope or the Web telescope. Our brain is like a universe and our technology is very inadequate to really know about all the unbelievably complex connections in the brain. But we have learned a few things in the last 20 years.”
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“You know figures, a quarter of people get physically abused, one out of five people get sexually abused, one out of eight kids, witnesses virus being their parents. Etc., etc. So, you know, if I sit in a room, it's not a binary issue. It's not ideal time, you didn't get traumatized, but When I talk to a room of professionals, which I do a lot, I assume that at least half the group viscerally knows what trauma means.”
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“I learned as much from my Ingblot test as I learned from my brain imaging about the brain imaging is respectable and the mind has sort of disappeared. But for example in our psychedelic research, I still very much hope to do in blood tests because as Michael Polland says, how to change your mind. But we're not measuring how people change their minds.”
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“Inglot tests. So you show some formless ink picture and we show it to people. And we saw that people had completely different interpretations of what they projected on that ink blot test. And that really brought home to me that we all are living in different worlds. A lot of the Vietnam veterans I saw saw bloody corpses or mutilated bodies in those carts. Had never been in combat, didn't see that. Vape victims are torn vaginas and torn bodies. Other people didn't see this. So once that becomes lodged into your perceptual system, you continue to interpret the world in that particular way.”
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“Yeah, yeah, your brain creates a map of the world in very deep ways. And so your experience form an internal wassa of the world that makes you expect certain things at certain times. So if I walk into a room and I see a person who looks like my old uncle who he has to play with, I start signing up to you because you're on deep level, remind me of that very nice article that I once had. I don't know that, but my brain is set to interpret the world in a particular way. So one of the things most profound research experience I had was purely accidental. We started to do Warshock tests on people.”
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“If you would beat me up right now, I'd go, this guy is crazy and I can call people and ruin your reputation, etc. If I'm three years old and you start hitting me as a kid, I don't know what the hell to do about it. And I'll likely think I did something wrong that I cost the guy to beat me up and I'm a terrible person. And no wonder that he beat me up because I'm a horrible creature. And that's what almost everybody I know who was beaten as a child just the internal understanding of it. Not when you're eight years old or 15 years old, but when you're very young, that becomes your experience.”
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